Delmenhorst Jewish cemetery
The Delmenhorst Jewish Cemetery is the burial place of people of Jewish faith in Delmenhorst .
history
The Jewish community in Delmenhorst, which belonged to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , acquired a plot of land on Syker Strasse (east of the city) in the first half of the 19th century. In 1848 she was able to set up her own cemetery there. This was also used by people of Jewish faith from Ganderkesee and Berne (until 1895). The first burial took place here in 1851 and the last in 1939 after power was handed over to the National Socialists. In 1997 the cemetery was reopened. Since then, burials have taken place there regularly. In 2005 there were 128 tombstones in the cemetery .
On the night of June 16-17 , 2012 , strangers, presumably from right-wing extremists, desecrated gravestones in the cemetery. Several gravestones were knocked over and smeared with swastikas . A total of 18 tombs were affected, one stone was completely broken. The state security started investigations.
literature
- The history of the cemetery, photos and inscriptions are documented in Johannes-Fritz Töllner: The Jewish cemeteries in the Oldenburger Land. Inventory of the preserved tombstones. (Oldenburger Studien 25), Oldenburg 1983, ISBN 3-87358-181-7 , pp. 488-587
Web links
- Gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Delmenhorst
- Jewish cemetery Syker Strasse - www.friedhoefe-delmenhorst.de
- Delmenhorst. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
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- ↑ Werner Meiners : Delmenhorst. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 1 and 2 (1668 pp.), Göttingen 2005, pp. 455-464
- ↑ http://www.weser-kurier.de/Artikel/Region/Delmenhorst/610619/Unbekannte-schaenden-juedische-Grabstaetten.html
Coordinates: 53 ° 3 '3.3 " N , 8 ° 39' 4.7" E